Dr Anup Basu
Research Program Overview
Traditionally, students have been using printed material to improve their performance. These materials can be limited in availability, take a long time to process, and can be difficult to search. There is a tremendous opportunity to investigate new ways of improving student performance through the use of multimedia educational content.
Dr Anup Basu chair’s the Advanced Digital Media for Education (ADME) that wants to use computer games, animations, cartoons, and videos for educational purposes. Along with content creation, multimedia has potential use in “innovative testing.” Audio, video and graphics are being integrated as alternative means for more effective testing rather than traditional pen-and-paper tests.
Over the last decade, the Computing Science department at the University of Alberta has achieved various milestones in the Multimedia area, including setting up a multimedia curriculum sponsored by HP, a CAVE visualization facility, the Multimedia Advanced Computing Facility, and several multimedia panoramic and 3D research projects.
The ADME team researches how image, graphics, and haptic and audio tools can be used for innovative testing. The research incorporates perceptual factors for optimizing transmission and visualization of multimedia for delivery over low-bandwidth and unreliable networks. Dr Basu’s industrial collaborator, Castle Rock Research, is accelerating as an already successful Alberta company to a company with national and international recognition for its innovative R&D pursuits.
Multimedia
Dr Anup Basu is an iCORE Industrial Chair awardee ($500K) since 2006.
He receives funding from his industrial partner Castle Rock Research
($500K). His government funding is from NSERC ($200K) and ASRA ($270K).
Biographical Information
Dr Anup Basu has worked on various aspects of online multimedia with special emphasis on human perception. He has developed leadership in industrial research over the last decade by leading several industry-university projects as well as assisting in the formation of start-up companies. His work has been recognized by Hewlett-Packard, and resulted in one of the only funding of a multimedia educational curriculum in Canada, to the University of Alberta.
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NSERC
Dr Anup Basu at the U of A
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